Do you think not numbering devices anymore will confuse people? iPad, iPad 2, iPad

It's about time they dropped the number ... there is really nothing revolutionary about new iPhones or iPads - they are incremental upgrades.

 

They don't number iPods, MacBooks or iMacs. I like this method better. I hope the next iPhone is just called "The iPhone".

 

I'm not confused at all.....I CLEARLY want the iPad 3 right now!

 

so then what is the next ipad going to be called? The new new ipad? Stupid; this is just going to confuse people.

 

It's just. iPad. Smart choice.

If they had called it iPad 3. You would have been more disappointed.

 

I think it will be casually called the iPad 3 or "Third-gen iPad".

Maybe this is in preparation for an expanded product line. If they're planning to add an iPad Pro or iPad Mini/Reader then having a number in the name makes less sense.

People do just fine with the Mac line using launch year and generation number.

 

I think its a bad idea. How will you choose a case for your iPhone if you don't know if you're buying one for the 4S or 5?

 

It's not called "The New iPad"; it's the new "iPad".

 

Good point.

 

the same way millions of people have purchased cases for ipod touches over the past years...

" have a third gen ipod touch"
"..............second gen......"
"fourth gen........."

 

Macbook Pro12 or Imac6 would sound lame right??


Bout time they drop the number in the name.

 

This. It's just "iPad" and it's new. In a year it'll be the old iPad.

 

And regular people who'se lives don't revolve around their gadgets will be confused. Not everyone knows which gen their iPad/iPhone is which is why the Phones have numbers.

 

I'm guessing retailers will say something like 2012 model or 2013 model.

 

Look at the box

The last iPad 2 I saw that came in a box wasn't labeled iPad 2. I don't know if all of them were that way at least the one we got in December doesn't have it.

 

This. If there's only one model released a year, what do you have to worry about?

The latest iPad is the 2012 iPad. Move along now

 

Nobody knows which # MBP they have, either. This will help consumers greatly. The 4/4S fiasco had to be the impetus. Just praying they call it "iPhone" this fall, not 5/6/HD.

 

It won't confuse the people that know what they are doing. Everyone else will just be happy they have one of them fandangled "i" machines in their hands.

 

Mid-2010 MBP.

 

Exactly, year, not #. I believe yours would be about #8 by the other standard.